1:33:01
Then a gardener.
Quartet becomes quintet.
1:33:04
And so on, on and on.
1:33:06
Sextet, septet, octet.
1:33:09
How long do you think
I can sustain that?
1:33:13
I have no idea.
1:33:15
Guess.
1:33:17
Guess, Your Majesty.
1:33:19
Imagine the longest time
it could be sustained, then double it.
1:33:24
Well...
1:33:27
Six...
1:33:30
...seven minutes?
1:33:34
- Eight minutes?
- Twenty, sire. Twenty minutes!
1:33:39
Twenty minutes of continuous music.
No recitatives!
1:33:43
Sire, only opera can do this.
1:33:46
In a play, if more than one person
speaks at once...
1:33:50
...it's just noise.
1:33:52
But with opera, with music...
1:33:54
...you can have 20 individuals
all talking at the same time.
1:33:59
It's not noise.
It's a perfect harmony!
1:34:02
Mozart, music is not the issue here.
1:34:05
No one doubts your talent. It's your
literary judgment that's in question.
1:34:10
Even with the politics taken out,
it would still remain a vulgar farce.
1:34:16
Why waste your spirit on such rubbish?
1:34:19
Surely you can choose more
elevated themes.
1:34:23
Elevated!
What does that mean, elevated?
1:34:27
I am fed to the teeth with these...
1:34:30
...elevated things. Old dead legends.
1:34:34
Why must we go on forever
writing of gods and legends?
1:34:38
Because they do.
1:34:40
They go on forever.
1:34:43
At least what they represent:
the eternal in us.
1:34:47
Opera is here to ennoble us, Mozart.
1:34:50
You and me,
just the same as His Majesty.
1:34:57
"Bello, bello, bello."
Come on now, be honest!